"To obey is better than sacrifice" 1 Samuel 15:22

Join us as we trace a straight line from Saul’s disobedience to the modern pull toward pride, people pleasing, and performative relevance, and we invite a return to divine alignment where obedience to God Himself is the measure of success. We end with a prayer of reconsecration to start 2026 with clean hands and a pure heart in the spirit of Psalm 24. In this episode we also discuss:

• Defining divine alignment as full agreement with God's word + Spirit
• 1 Samuel 15 as a framework for obedience over sacrifice
• How culture normalizes disobedience and dulls reverence
• New Testament warnings about flesh and false godliness
• The 3 altars of the heart: pride, fear of man, relevancy
• The danger of platform without hidden devotion
• Practicing discernment to hear God directly
• Living for the audience of One and in light of eternity
• A guided prayer of repentance and reconsecration

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Signs and wonders. These are the operative words for 2025 and here at the year's final exhale Tanya takes a moment to draw us back to one simple invitation: There is more—but the "more" often flows to those willing to risk it all for obedience and loyalty to God...those willing to pursue the purity of God's Presence above all else.

This episode tells the story of this truth through a miraculous series of events that ushered Tanya and her family into the most supernaturally charged 9 months of their lives. If you’re weary of human strategy and starved for Presence, this conversation calls you into childlike faith, deeper surrender, and the courage to leave what no longer fits. She names the hard questions—what needs to be left behind in 2025? Who do you need to forgive and release? What do you need to repent of and renounce? Tanya leads us in a year-end inventory of the soul to help us posture our hearts for radical loyalty to God and a willingness to be open to the possibility of being surprised by God in 2026.

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In episode 8 we continue our 4-part series covering 8 biblical ways to hear and know God's voice. This week our focus lies on circumstances and impressions as doorways to discernment. With insights from Tanya's new book, "Befriending God," we'll journey through the life of Moses and Joseph, uncovering how their experiences with God—marked by adversity and divine intervention—can inspire us to listen closely to the guidance offered through our own circumstances and Spirit-led inner knowings. We also discuss what it means to cultivate radical loyalty to God in prioritizing this transformative question, "What is God saying?" and contemplate the requirements and rewards of a cruciform life through which we fully surrender to the lordship of Christ.

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Surprise! We interrupt our regularly scheduled micro-series for a very special live Q&A from the Befriending God pre-release gathering on February 7th. Join Tanya and Redeeming The Story board member Hannah Wood as they dive into God as our permanent home, the invitation of prayer, a healthy theology of suffering and other important topics related to Tanya's new book releasing February 11th.

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Join us as we continue our 4-part series exploring 8 biblical ways God befriends us, intimately, here in a Post-Eden world. In this very special episode, we explore wonder through the artistry of God as revealed in nature and science. We also contemplate the power of music to draw us into intimacy with God through specific songs and musical moments found in Exodus, Psalms, 2 Kings and Revelation. God is the Original Artist, the first to make something beautiful out of absolutely nothing. Join us as we lean into spiritual and practical ways to embrace this truth and to befriend Him in intentional ways.

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Join Tanya for a 4 part series chronicling 8 biblical ways God speaks and befriends us here in a transient, complex, Post-Eden world. In this episode we contemplate what it means to abide in God as our permanent home. Tanya also integrates a few choice excerpts from "Befriending God," releasing February 11th. Pre-order physical copies/audio books here.

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In Episode 4 we explore the practicalities of discerning God's voice and aligning life with Philippians 3:14 even when it requires courageous faith.

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The upside-down reality of God's kingdom is found in Jesus' words in Matthew 5. God loves the unlikely and frequently overshadows human power structures to prove the last is first in His heart.

In this episode Tanya shares family secrets and personal stories to this end. She also unveils an unlikely but beautiful development, 2 years in the making.

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